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What will I find on a marriage church record ?

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mgnv

mgnv Report 22 Oct 2008 03:34

In most parishes, from 1813 on, I think preprinted registers were used (I've capitalized the preprinted bits), so a typical entry (# 123 here) would read:

John Smith OF the PARISH of Alnwick
AND Jane Brown OF this PARISH
WERE MARRIED IN THIS Church BY Banns WITH CONSENT OF
Parents THIS Sixteenth DAY OF
March IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND Fourteen
BY ME Michael Green Curate
THIS MARRIAGE WAS SOLEMNIZED BETWEEN US John Smith, x Jane Brown her mark
IN THE PRESENCE OF Arnold Black, Mary Smith
NO 123

The only place parents names might occur is in the "consent" space, but usually "parents" appears (well, usually it's blank, but I've never seen any other entry, but I've not seen a huge number).

If you actually saw the register, you might notice Arnold Black was the witness on 75% of the 1814 marriages, and thus conclude he probably was not a relative.

Christine

Christine Report 20 Oct 2008 22:18

Hi Alan

A visit to the church, is that possible ?
Would the records still be held there

Sorry for the delay

Chris in Italy

Christine

Christine Report 20 Oct 2008 22:16

Hi Amanda

No, John Palmer was born in St Martin in the Field Middlesex but Sophia Biggs his wife, I believe was born there,
Sorry I didn't reply immediately, dinner called

Chris in Italy

Amanda,

Amanda, Report 20 Oct 2008 20:53

Hi Christine,

There may yet be a small glimmer of hope for you,
if it was only an Index, do you know if he was " of this parish"

The Banns are quite useful in finding which parish they were from.

Kind regards
Amanda

Researching:
Twitchett

Alan

Alan Report 20 Oct 2008 19:25

Just had a look at IGI batch numbers for Lyncombe & Widcome. There weren't any searchable databases on line...............maybe church contact necessary.

Christine

Christine Report 20 Oct 2008 19:12

Thanks Shirley for the information, I do have the names of the witnesses but it did not help finding the parentage of my gg grandfather.
But thanks for that, I now know it would be a waste of my time trying to locate the original

Chrisinitaly

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 20 Oct 2008 19:03

The Parish records of marriages pre 1837 ,that i have copies of, didn't give any parents name, they would state the bride & grooms names and their status ie spinster/bachelor/widower and may say of full age or minor and whether of the parish . the witnesses sometimes may give a clue to the family.

Shirley

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

Christine

Christine Report 20 Oct 2008 18:55

If I was lucky enough to locate an original church record of a marriage, what information would be recorded ?
I know that my g g grandfather married in the parish of Lyncombe and Widcome, Bath on the 20/10/1814 in the Church of St Mark. These details were kindly given to me by one of the people who offer to do Parish look up but she only had the index.
I wondered whether the original would give details of his father, as marriage certificates give now.
Does anyone know ?